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WHITEHALL

Pickles: I would have considered reorganisation in ideal world

By Dan Peters | 31 March 2015

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has suggested local government reorganisation would have been ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Warning East Midlands could lose out

By Dan Peters | 30 March 2015

The chairman of East Midlands Councils has warned his region could lose out in the national focus...

FINANCE

MJ Forum 15: Kerslake - We can't repeat cuts that went before

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2015

Implementing the same level of cuts to local government in the next five years as seen in the las...

FINANCE

MJ Future Forum 15: Bichard: NAO will become more important

By Dan Peters | 27 March 2015

The chair of the National Audit Office (NAO) has predicted the organisation will become increasin...

FINANCE

Councillors to 'raise merry hell with ministers' over delay

By Dan Peters | 25 March 2015

A promise by ministers to exempt councillors’ travel expenses from tax by the beginning of 2015/1...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

EXCLUSIVE: Stand-off over counter-fraud strategy

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

A new counter-fraud strategy for councils has been delayed with the Department for Communities an...

FINANCE

Policy evaluations under scrutiny

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

The Government has been criticised by a select committee over the amount of evaluation it carries...

WHITEHALL

London's devolution progress 'disappoints'

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Newham’s mayor has told The MJ he is ‘staggeringly disappointed’ with devolution in London so far...

LEGISLATION

Postal vote reminder branded 'needless'

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Returning officers are being forced to write more than 100,000 letters containing postal voting i...

HEALTH

EXCLUSIVE: BCF 'journey must continue' says minister

By Dan Peters | 24 March 2015

Local government minister Kris Hopkins has told The MJ he wants the Better Care Fund to continue ...

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